Brian Servis writes: > Add > holdoff 1 > persist > to your ppp options file(see the man page for pppd for details). If you > used pppconfig then that would be in your /etc/ppp/peers directory and > the default name of the options file is 'provider'. The global ppp options file is /etc/ppp/options and affects all connections. /etc/ppp/peers/provider is only for the connection named 'provider'. -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI